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Deaf Studies
DST-705 Language, Culture, and Power
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This course begins by exploring key issues faced by minority language communities, with special emphasis on the world’s linguistic diversity, language endangerment, and revitalization. After gaining a broad understanding of the dynamic intersections of language, culture and power, students will examine the historical role of language ideologies relating to signed languages, beginning with classical thought and continuing through the formation of deaf education in the 18th century and the medicalization of deaf bodies in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the end, students should be able to identify and explain intersections of philosophical, linguistic, educational, medical, scientific, and anthropological discourses which influenced the vitality of sign languages and deaf communities in the 21st century. Developing awareness of this phonocentric heritage helps to equip students in developing strategies for linguistic and cultural revitalization of sign languages and deaf communities.
Matriculated in DST MA Program
Program: Deaf Studies
Credit: 3
DST-410
Multicultural Deaf Lives…
This course will focus on cultural issues, values,…
Credits 3
DST-494
Senior Seminar
This seminar gives students the opportunity to develop…
DST-495
Special Topics
Special topics in the discipline, designed primarily for…
Credits 1-5
DST-497
Deaf Studies Senior…
This course will introduce students to several research…
DST-498
This course is an extension of DST 497…
DST-499
Independent Study
Intensive supervised study and research on topics of…
Credits 1-3